EQDiva

Okay, noob question time. I was told that you should put your fasting weapon in your primanry hand since it is faster and oyu will get more damage bmus that way and your slow weapon in your off hand since its attack speed was more oyur duel weild skill and less its attack delay. Has that changed or am i mistaken?

There is no simple, easy anwser to this question... Personally I think you have to look at whether you are soloing or what kind of group you are in and also factor in the Damage/Delay ratio along with the procs. Its not all about speed of the weapon. In a very extreme case to prove my point... You might have a weapon (A) with a delay 14 damage 4 with natural increase hate proc and increase hate aug... and also have a weapon (B) with delay 21 damage 29 with natural proc 250 and a proc 300 aug. In this case I would definatly use the slower weapon (B) in my main hand. I dont think anyone in their right mind wouldnt. Now if you were to throw in the factor that you are main tank in group and want to keep solid aggro on yourself then I would switch (A) into my main hand just for more attack swings with that weapon so it will proc more. Otherwise I would say weapon (B) with a higher delay wins hands down. But anyway... as I said you just have to look at the situation you are in and weapons you have... not just straight delay.

Speed is meaningless... ratio is what you need to look at. Always put your better ratio weapon in mainhand. The only exception to this would be if the weapons have similar ratios and the slightly worse one has a significant proc advantage. You would never mainhand a 4/14 over a 29/21... unless the 4/14 proc'd a 20k DD or something.

lol... or you are fighting skellys outside of North Freeport

yep better ratio is more dps so no need to stick a lesser faster weap in mainhand mainhand hits more and procs more. a weapon proc from offhand occurs about half the time it would if it were in your mainhand. proc rates are independent of weap speed and hits. if you have two weapons that are equal or near equal ratio but one has a more desirable innate and/or augmented proc stick it in mainhand. there are some who will argue that for example: nbob auged with tacvi dmg aug instead of a don 175 dd proc aug is more dps since the dmg aug makes the ratio better. that is correct and i agree 100%. any ranger who runs a parser will tell you the same thing; except the difference for a ranger is huge compared to a bard's..but.. i prefer two stun procs from my mainhand for hate and an extra chance to stop casting over the slight dps increase you get from having the dmg aug. ive tried just about every combination i can with dk, 2.0, nbob, cs4 augs, and tacvi dmg aug. and really the only major difference i noticed was proc dmg. this was before tss and bards getting the double attack skill so i havnt been able to try anything for a few months but personally i prefer 2.0 with 2xcs4 augs in mainhand, and dk with tacvi aug in offhand. i get tired of the graphic sometimes so sometimes i'll switch back to nbob auged with cs4 in mainhand and epic in offhand with cs4 aug and usually the 175dd fire dmg aug from don. if i had shimmer scale i would put that in it instead